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Young children's apprenticeship in number
This thesis investigates young children's appropriation and use of number through social mediative practices which may occur at home or in pre-school playgroups/nurseries. The design and interpretation of this study is drawn from a social constructivist perspective, that is rooted in Vygotskian …
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Apprenticeship in Ireland: An Historical Analysis
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Faster apprenticeship learning through inverse optimal control
… environment and an optimal policy. Typically, apprenticeship learning is approached as a combination of these two techniques. This is an iterative process – at each step inverse reinforcement learning is applied first to get the rewards, followed by reinforcement learning to produce a guess for …
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TeachBot : an automated, hands-on apprenticeship program
… problem through TeachBot, an automated, hands-on apprenticeship program. TeachBot seeks to empower manufacturing workers with the skills necessary to work collaboratively with robots in the manufacturing industry. Through the use of ROS, the program teaches key topics in robotics such as encoders, …
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Human-machine collaborative optimization via apprenticeship scheduling
… and professionals become experts over years of apprenticeship, and this knowledge is not easily codified in the form of a policy. In my thesis, I develop a novel computational technique, Collaborative Optimization Via Apprenticeship Scheduling (COVAS), that enables robots to learn a policy to …
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Employer Perspectives Related to Youth Apprenticeship Program Participation
… reasons for the lack of involvement with youth apprenticeship program initiatives.
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INSTRUCTORS' PERCEPTIONS OF ONLINE INSTRUCTION WITHIN REGISTERED APPRENTICESHIP PROGRAMS
… OF ONLINE INSTRUCTION WITHIN REGISTERED APPRENTICESHIP PROGRAMS MAJOR PROFESSOR: Dr. Barbara Hagler This qualitative study explored the perceptions of instructor use of online instruction within Registered Apprenticeship Programs (RAPs). The study concentrated on experienced instructors …
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A Critical Analysis of Apprenticeship Programs in British Columbia
This study examines issues surrounding apprenticeships in the construction industry in British Columbia (BC) during the period of 1993 to 2004, particularly the state of the social settlement amongst its primary stakeholders, namely the government, unionized and non-unionized employment …
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The apprenticeship of children in the New England colonies
This item was digitized by the Internet Archive. Thesis (M.A.)--Boston University
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Technology-supported apprenticeship in the management of chronic disease
… at extraordinary cost. Technology-supported apprenticeship is a model of chronic disease management that embraces the contribution of the patient. It is collaborative, continuous, and designed to achieve value through improvement in the experience, clinical outcomes, and cost of care. In this …
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Building up the silver circle route : apprenticeship at Markaðstofa Vesturlands
This paper is a final report of vocational training done for the B.A. final project. The focus area for the vocational training chosen was destination product development, and the product developed was route in Borgarfjörður called Silver Circle Borgarfjörður. The Silver Circle Borgarfjörður route, …
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The Irish and the Japanese Apprenticeship systems: A comparative study
… have been delivered through a structured apprenticeship which has persisted for centuries, evolving from the early Guild system of indentured apprenticeship to the modern apprenticeship models operating in Japan and Ireland, on which this study has focused. This research examines the …
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Training Externalities and Institutional Determinants: Assessing Rentention in Ohio Apprenticeship Programs
While apprenticeships are an important part of the workforce training system, their numbers have continued to decline in the United States. Apprentice dropout (attrition) is identified as the primary concern that discourages employers from investing in this training (Lerman, Eyster, & Chambers, …
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A case study of the cognitive apprenticeship model in leadership education
The cognitive apprenticeship model (CAM) has been examined for more than a quarter century as an instructional model from the perspectives of instructors. However, CAM is also a learning model. Remarkably little has been offered regarding the manner by which learners experience this model, and yet …
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The Sketch Book : Washington Irving's literary apprenticeship in England.
… American culture, for after serving a literary apprenticeship in England, Irving returns thematically to his homeland. The first set of sketches (Number I), written in England but sent to America for publishing in March, 1819, sets up the tension between American practicality and British …
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Toward 'Henry Esmond': Thackeray's Apprenticeship in First-Person Narrative, 1837-1850
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-08T22:39:03Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 6808261.pdf: 8671325 bytes, checksum: 94437fc5c56c99d49d8857f0f6416af8 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1967
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A Mixed Methods Study of On-Farm Apprenticeship Learning in Virginia
… effectively preparing beginning farmers. On-farm apprenticeships in the U.S. show promise as a means to prepare farmers and are increasing in number (Niewolny and Lillard, 2010). Lave (1988) writes 'knowledge-in-practice, constituted in the settings of practice, is the locus of the most powerful …
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Augmented Conversation and Cognitive Apprenticeship Metamodel Based Intelligent Learning Activity Builder System
… theories—Conversation Theory (CT) and Cognitive Apprenticeship (CA). The research conceptualised an Augmented Conversation and Cognitive Apprenticeship Metamodel (ACCAM) based on apriori theoretical knowledge and assumptions of its underlying theories. ACCAM was implemented in an Intelligent …
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